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Bede's Historiae - Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction of the Anglo-Saxon Church History (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,257
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Bede's Historiae - Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction of the Anglo-Saxon Church History (Hardcover): Vicky Gunn

Bede's Historiae - Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction of the Anglo-Saxon Church History (Hardcover)

Vicky Gunn

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A reappraisal of Bede's writings, focusing on his use of genre and rhetoric. The church history of the Anglo-Saxons can only be approached through the lens of a few writers, arguably the greatest of whom is Bede; his works illuminate an otherwise impoverished landscape of ecclesial development from conversion to established Christian church amongst the Anglo-Saxons. Bede, however, had his own agendas - monastic, political, and rhetorical. In her reappraisal of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, Lives of the Saints, History of the Abbots, the Lesser and Greater Chronicles and the Martyrology and the audience for these texts, the author draws out the role played by classical forms of genre and rhetoric in the crafting of his work.Shealso explores the underlying political influences that caused Bede to write historia as he did. In particular, she notes the role of historia in monastic affairs, especially through the generation of a rhetoric of orthodoxy and the power of the cultural capital afforded by this within the relatively newly constituted Christian community in Northumbria. Dr VICKY GUNN is Senior Lecturer, Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Glasgow.

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Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2009
First published: June 2009
Authors: Vicky Gunn
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-465-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
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LSN: 1-84383-465-0
Barcode: 9781843834656

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